Tag: family
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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February 26, 2008 07:07 AM EST --
Hi everyone. I want to put forth a quick survey on families. What's your household like. Mine includes myself, my seventeen year old son, my fifteen year old daughter, my cat, and my daughter's . . .
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December 27, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Today marks my son's 18th Birthday. Today, he is officially an adult. It's never been my own birthdays that made me feel older, it's been my kids.
My son skipped second grade, so he graduated . . .
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November 22, 2008 10:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the daytime temperature dipped below 10 degrees for the first time this season in my area, and yesterday I dug my winter coat out of the closet for the first time. I was fighting it. I wanted . . .
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December 25, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
It's about 6 a.m. Christmas morning. The streets are still quiet. My son is asleep. My daughter stayed at my brother's last night. The cat and guinea pigs are quiet at the moment as well. I was . . .
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January 24, 2009 07:28 AM EST --
Since I started my weekly blog several months ago it has been my intention to try to keep things positive as much as possible. I make life observations, relate them to my quest to balance the day job, . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
One of my personal downfalls is that I have never been a fan of planning. I internally cringe when I'm asked at an interview "where I want to be in five years." I don't know, and I don't . . .
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October 26, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison
Expectation is a driving component in just about everything we do, even when we make a conscious . . .
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February 24, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
When I was growing up, we didn't have much. My father was out of the picture when I was two, and I was well aware of the infrequency of child support. My mother worked two jobs most of the time, and . . .
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March 29, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
Go back? Cora still didn't know if she could. Jaielle was her sister? She was kin to Kylion? Of course, it was only logical. Jaielle's mother had fallen ill soon after Jaielle was born. And Cora's . . .
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December 12, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
Yesterday morning I wrote three paragraphs worth of the sappiest drivel ever to populate a word processing program. I'm surprised my laptop didn't explode. Really. It was that bad. But the . . .
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January 08, 2007 06:20 AM EST --
I'm starting this at 4:45 and vow not to let up until 5:15, I will keep going until an alarm rings and then wrap it up. Even if it seems there is nothing to say, I will keep going. Over this past weekend . . .
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January 10, 2007 05:49 AM EST --
So today is my last day at work until after MLK day. I took thursday and friday off to get caught up and possibly ahead a little in the class I'm taking. It can be tricky, because I'm supposed . . .
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March 20, 2007 05:22 AM EDT --
Last Christmas
your gave me a silver sleigh
hung from a sterling silver chain
to wear around my neck.
You had wrapped it beautifully
in the recycled Godiva box
chocolate I later learned
. . .
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April 09, 2007 06:12 AM EDT --
They're just words
symbols with sounds
aligned in patterns
to create
meaning
From the time our children are born
we wait for words
watch our babies' mouths,
decipher their cries, coos and babbles . . .
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April 10, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
I snuck out my window
with my backpack
on my shoulder,
and disappeared again
into the black and starlit night
I cut through the back yard,
through the neighbor's yard,
to the . . .
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June 03, 2007 08:30 AM EDT --
I'll start first with a disclaimer. I don't really measure when I make most things. I throw stuff in until it looks and tastes balanced. I'll estimate here. Keep in mind proportions, when I . . .
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February 19, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
A couple weeks ago I took my seventeen year old son to see Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the Johnny Depp, Tim Burton version. My daughter, 15, did not go. I wanted to see . . .
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October 18, 2008 04:14 PM EDT --
I am the mother of two teens educated in Minnesota Public Schools, beginning with my son’s Headstart class when he was three and continuing into public high school and the local community college. I have . . .
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October 23, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
I just read the following article on Yahoo: Report: Kids Less Likely to Graduate than Parents . I was mortified. The article went on to say that the drop out rate is 25% and goals for improvement in . . .
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January 17, 2009 10:40 AM EST --
I am really looking forward to this upcoming week. I'm on vacation from the day job until January 26 - nine whole days, but it doesn't mean I don't have plenty to do. I have articles to write . . .
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